GDC 2015: These are the Steam Machines landing later this year

By Michael Rougeau and Nick Pino

Steam Machines at GDC

We’ve been waiting for a long time now, but Steam Machines are finally beginning to appear.

These living room PCs come from a variety of manufacturers, but they all share one thing: they use SteamOS to give gamers a streamlined way to play PC games on the big screen.

And at GDC 2015, Steam Machines are stealing all the headlines, from individual announcements to big plans from Valve itself.

The biggest news? That Steam Machines will start arriving this fall. Here are the ones we’ve seen and heard about so far this week.

Syber

Syber is a division of CyberPowerPC, one of the 13 Steam Machine partners Valve announced back in January 2014.

At GDC 2015 this week they finally showed off what they have in store, including a half dozen different varieties of Steam Machine.

These include the Steam Machine-Mini, Steam Machine-Mercury and Steam Machine-Switch, all of which Syber is showing off at the show.

On the low end of the six is the $450 (about £290, AU$575) Syber Steam Machine-E, with a quad-core AMD processor and NVIDIA GeForce GTX graphics. The high …read more

Source: techradar.com – Gaming